Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education — CFDA 84.116

FIPSE obligations at $699,815,064.25

USAspending.gov records $699,815,064.25 in obligations under CFDA 84.116. Three hundred seventy-nine awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $1,846,478 per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical campus-project budget and not a cost per student. Other Department of Education postsecondary listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $699,815,064.25.

The assistance-listing title is FUND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION. CFDA 84.116 is the identifier. Combining 84.116 with TRIO or Title III codes would invent a combined higher-education total this packet does not contain. Read the $699,815,064.25 as the obligation book tagged 84.116 only.

334 recipients on 379 award rows

Three hundred thirty-four recipients share 379 awards, or about 1.13 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $699,815,064.25 evenly would assign about $2.10 million per recipient. That density is a competitive-campus pattern: most named colleges and partners carry a single assistance row. The packet does not list the 334.

Fifty jurisdictions in the geographic count cover the 50 states in the USAspending state field. FIPSE dollars follow funded projects, not equal shares. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table. Recipient count is organizational, not a census of students or faculty.

Award rows are not a campus census

Among Education listings, 84.116 is a mid-row competitive file: 379 awards against 334 recipients. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of FIPSE projects” and a worse proxy for students reached. Recipients (334) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (379) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report retention rates, completions, or program models. Citing 379 as campuses would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions. The $699,815,064.25 stock is the obligation figure from USAspending.gov.

Obligations versus FIPSE outlays

The $699,815,064.25 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education awards — are not in the packet. A competitive file can show a large obligation stock while campuses draw across multi-year project periods. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Use CFDA 84.116 to size this FIPSE listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a completion-rate dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 84.116.

What the 84.116 tables omit

The program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not an IPEDS extract, not a program catalog, and not an accreditation file. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $699,815,064.25. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 379 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 50 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares of postsecondary-innovation funding. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid to colleges.

Where the 84.116 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 84.116 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other Education listings. For 84.116 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 84.116’s 379 awards spread $699,815,064.25 across 334 recipients and 50 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 1.13 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

A researcher comparing 84.116 with TRIO or Title III codes should keep CFDA numbers separate. The 334-recipient headcount on 379 awards is a near 1:1 competitive-campus fingerprint spanning 50 jurisdictions. Quote $699,815,064.25 as the USAspending obligation stock for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education only. About 1.13 award records per recipient is the density story. Student counts, retention rates, and completions remain outside the packet. Outlays are a separate column.

Questions

How much is obligated for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education?

USAspending.gov records $699,815,064.25 in obligations for CFDA 84.116. SpendingVault indexes 379 awards, 334 recipients, and 50 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a campus count. CFDA 84.116’s $699,815,064.25 is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 84.116 carry?

The listing shows 379 awards against 334 recipients, or about 1.13 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $1,846,478 per award. Award count is not a count of students or degrees. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 84.116 awards?

The extract lists 334 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 84.116, not a census of campuses nationwide. Geographic coding covers 50 jurisdictions. The packet does not name the 334 or publish completion rates. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Is $699,815,064.25 already paid for FIPSE grants?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 84.116’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or students served. The $699,815,064.25 on 379 awards is the obligation figure. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.